This is your first charge, I wouldn't bother with paying for a lawyer.... If this was your 2nd or 3rd charge than by all means I would advise pay for a lawyer for sure...Talk with a public defendant and you should be good to go, especially since this is your first charge... You will most likely get PTI , Probation, Fines, Community service & lose your drivers license for a year or so( You can get out of loosing your drivers license if you do some sneaky shit, Pm for that information if you want it )
UB i would have to disagree that as the first time getting popped that you might want to skip a lawyer and just go with a PD...by saying that it sounds like you already gave up and are not willing to fight the case before it even starts..like your saying your most likely gonna be found guilty and end up with probation, so save your funds cause a lawyer wont do much more...if anything i would get the lawyer to try and make sure i dont get that dredded first felony...you dont want to give up the fight before it even begins and be left thinking "what else could i have done?" or " i wonder if a laywer would have done something differnt"
^Man how are you going to preach all that shit about a lawyer doing you so good when you've never even had a public defender? How do you know you didn't just a waste a shit load of money. Granted I'm sure the lawyer helped on some of em, but I guarantee some shit like gettin caught with a brick a public defender can handle perfectly fine. We're not talking about no corrupt criminal orginization or RICO charges with phone taps or some shit this is a fucking BRICK a minimal amount of dope.
cause here in cook county our PDs arent worth shit, cook county has the single largest county jail in the country, and our PDs are so over worked thats its not even funny, alot of them it seems like they really dont care.. the good thing with a lawyer is you can choose who you want and pick one who specializes in the certain case you got popped for..like my lawyer was the states attorney for 20+ years and was in line to be judge but a female minority was choosen instead to run and that pissed him off. so instead of staying as a prosecutor he switched over and is a defense lawyer now...how i found him was, when i went to my normal lawyer he told that he doesnt really handle the type of cases i had anymore but if he was in my shoes, he would call my lawyer to be his lawyer..so when my lawyer says this is who he would call to be his lawyer you gotta go with it..
and you said "this aint no curropt criminal organization with rico charges and phone taps..its just a brick"...persoanlly hearing BHANs story about how the cops that got him where unmarked and surrounded him and got him once they got outta the area and on the highway makes me think it is something more..i wouldnt doubt that the cops do have the phone tap and was listening and when they heard the order for a brick instead of half a bundle or whatever most people might buy, they jumped on them...if it was a random/lucky stop it wouldnt happen on the highway by unmarked pigs, they want to keep that nvestigation they got going so they arent pulling people over anywhere around the area where there might be lookouts..
ask altek about how NJ does there shit..this story sounds exactly like his, he would cop all the time off his people but the day his ordered up a brick is when they decided to pop him, cause it was a trafficking arrest, not simple possession..he found out the cops where watching his people and actually heard his convos a few times and when he upped his normal purchase order they popped him.
Man that ain't true at all yo. I'm living fuck proof you can beat hard ass cases with a PD and the PD that did it was the fuckin man he for real worked his ass off and kept me up to date the whole fuckin time callin me and shit gave me his house and personal cell number. Dude did every bit of paper work and some that he needed to.
If a lawyer thinks they can get away with it they will take your money and not do a bit of extra fuckin work and then you're out a lot of fuckin gwap and you're fucked in the game as far as the case goes. Don't assume just cuz you're payin some dude he's going to go above and beyond for you, that's naive as fuck.
you think that a PD who is appointed to you with no say if they even want the case, cause its the same as 8 other cases they got goin on, especially for someone who has been arrested multiple times for the same offense, who obviously hasnt learned anything from the priors? a PD who knows they are getting paid no matter what by the state and not the person they are defending so without a doubt they are gonna go above and beyond for this person possibly with no sleep working on this case....now thatsbeing naive as fuck
it just sounds like you got lucky with a PD whos probably looking to move up in the states attorney office, and thats great for you man im not knocking the lawyer but thats just one out of prolly 50 that work for the court...you cant sit there and hope you get the one good one in the bunch, you want to choose the person that best fits you and your situation cause possibly your freedom is on the line
its not like when you go get a lawyer your opening up a phone book wtih your eyes closed and pick at random..a pay lawyer is not just gonna sit there and jerk you around cause they are a private practice..the way lawyers really make the good money is by having a reputation thats impeccable and by word of mouth from other people
